[gdal-dev] shapefile field size

[Even Rouault]

A quick reading of your issue let me think you're hitting the "well-known" and 
still unresolved issue, reported as http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2286

Le Wednesday 24 September 2008 21:14:11 Clay, Bruce, vous avez écrit :
> Follow on to earlier message.
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> I removed the SetLength and SetPrecision from the field specification
> and things are working now.  ArcMap thinks the integer fields are
> Doubles with length of 11 and precision of 11 but the values do not
> appear to be truncated so that is a good thing
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> It just seems odd that the OCI driver accepted the size but the
> shapefile driver did not.
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> Bruce
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> [mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Clay, Bruce
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 2:55 PM
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> Subject: [gdal-dev] shapefile field size
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> I have an OGR based application that I am having problems with data
> storage
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> Several fields are OFTInteger and several are OFTReal
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> When I write a dataset using the OCI driver the integer fields all store
> valid information.
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> When I write a dataset using the Shapefile driver the integer fields
> appear to be truncated to shorts. They are defined with a field width of
> 4 bytes.  It almost looks like the data is stored as ASCII because only
> the 4 most significant digits are actually saved in the shapefile.
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> Is this the intended operation or is there some extra flag that I need
> to set when I switch between creating an Oracle table and a shapefile?
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> Bruce
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